Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11

Converting Capit.llsts to Mining.
ST. PAUL, June 9.-(Special to The
| Miner.]-A Washington special to the
Pioneer. says William B. Reed, OF Helena,
is in the city to secure patents for a claim
| consulting the Penn placer mine. He has
been east raising capital to work the Penn
mine. which lies along Sack Creek, and he
has sold half the mine to Philadelphia
capitalists. He has had to fight eastern
prejudice against mines as an Investment.
CONTEST.
The following item. clipped from the
Leadville Democrat, will be OF interest to
many readers who knew Henry Page, one
of the brothers, who worked in the Amy Sill
versmith before he left last fall for Lead
vile: The drilling contest that took place
in California gulch on Sunday last for $500,
in which the Page brothers constituted one
team and Rinker and O'Connell the other.
was the principal event of the Sabbath, and
for the time being almost completely depop-
ulated the streets. Several hundred people
were upon the margins of California gulch
quarry before the principals in the contest
arrived, and when they put in appearance.
a tremendous shout vent up. The Page
boys, who had been anxious for the event
to take place. conceded to their opponents
the first drive at the keeu-edged drills. and
at the signal from Mr.. Nose Sommers, the
referee, Rinker and O'Connell proceeded
upon the drill. Fifteen minutes passed and
the measurement OF the hole was made and
announced as Is inches. The Page boys
then followed, and the judge announced %
:-.lo, - - o-,4o~@p1S-- $500 ILL., 1okko.
were accordingly declared the winners. and
departed amid the congratulations of their
friends. The contest passed off very har-
moniously and will doubtless be product
i've OF future matches.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Clipper mill was leased to Keith on
Tuesday at S75 a month. The repairs will
be somewhat expensive. costing about
$1,000 to put the mill in shape.
The Anaconda mine started to hoist
Wednesday morning. During the delay
caused by the blockade in the ore chute the
whole force has been at work on timbering.
About 4 o'clock Wednesday morning the
Anaconda ore train commenced taking ore
for the smelter. There was another lay-off
OF men employed in removing the Anaconda
ore dump Tuesday night.
McGovern & Co. are working the old
placer diggings, just south of the city, and
are meeting with very good returns from it.
The Butte Sampling Works crushed 700
tons of ore during May from various miIes
in this district, and this month promises to
Guido the last. The ore is shipped to the
Pueblo Reduction Works, Colorado.
Carter & Parsons Of this city have struck
a promising prospect in a mine on Freeze
Out Mountain near Ellison, Deer Lodge
county. At a depth of fifty feet the shaft
has struck a three-foot ledge from which
the ore taken shows so ounces silver and
10 gold by assays in Butte.
jackson Davis, engineer Of the Parrot,
left for Portland, Oregon, Wednesday,
summoned there by sickness of relatives.
Joe Harris and a party started out On a
prospecting tour Wednesday morning,
taking with them a full outfit of pack
animals and tools. They will make their
first stop in the neighborhood of Melrose.
Satisfactory progress is being made
sinking and running the east drift in the
Burlington.
The Stewart is down a depth of 100 feet
and ledge about 100 feet long has been
struck in the east drift. The drift has
reached 0 feet the past week. Within
the last few days a strike of no ordinary
Importance has been made here, the ore
showing quantities CT native silver all
through it. This mine is situated in the
midst of a belt of copper producing
ore, and IS the only silver lead in the neigh
borhood that is exclusively silver with no
The ore is treated at Clark's Co.
Mr.. Woodman Parker is the efficient
director of the works.
Everything is shut down at the Grey Ea-
gle. and a large quantity of copper ore re-
mains on the dump which was taken out
on speculation by a party of miners. They
can't find a market for it and are out their
The reason why Mussigbrod & Co. threw
up their lease on the Narrow Gauge is thus
explained by one who processes to be &C.
uuainted with the facts: The timbers are
commencing to give way in the old shaft. |
the ore body having been stopped to the
shaft, and to sink it further would necessi-
tate the running OF a lengthy crosscut
the shaft is DOW down to. NJ. & Co.. |
offered to sink a new shaft in a more suita- |
locality on the ledge, they to receive a
lease in place of the present one |
or one year. But they could not get the
essors to agree to this, and 80 the present
Of machinery will be removed.
The Blackfoot mill on Missoula gulch
cuts an average of $50, 900 feet of lumber
Der day. Turing the late freshet all the
- iOSCo "CIc "hSucu Out dHO Tic DldCklOOC
was compelled to keep a force OF
4 hundred men employed in saving their
arge dam, and it came very near giving
away even then. There was in the dam at
he time a jam OF saw logs amounting to
;wo million five hundred thousand feet of
and if the dam had burst the loss
would have amounted to thousands of
lollars.
The Poser mine, next to the Elm Orlu,
to the Moulton Company, has
'een started up again and will be in opera
ion in a few days.
The Tuscarora works at Argenta have
made a trial run under the man
cement of Carl Heinrich. which is very
satisfactory, and two carloads of high
rade bullion have been shipped to the
Lead Works at Pittsburg to
refined. The company has now shut
to make alterations and needed i'm
and will start again when the
FORK is completed and they get a sufficient
upply of coke on hand.
The Bland lode in Summit Valley Mining
situated pack fthe Magma Charta
line, in Walkerville, has been leased and
onded for one year for $4,000 by Chas.
. Warren, John H. Curtis, C. D. Curtis
John I. Argyle to George Chapman
nd Terence Hughes.
Coming to the Front. i
Bozeman Chronicle: Butte is to have a
GARD of trade. Butte is coming to the !